Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil has filed a lawsuit against senior Trump administration officials, the Heritage Foundation, Betar, and Canary Mission, seeking damages for unlawful conspiracy, he said in a press conference on Tuesday.
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and Khalil’s lawyers from Beldock Levine & Hoffman announced the lawsuit, alleging that these groups “sought to terrorize and make an example of” him and other non-citizen Palestinian rights activists "in an effort to intimidate and weaken the growing movement for Palestinian solidarity”.
The lawsuit was brought under the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, according to CCR.
The lawsuit alleges that his targeting was driven by anti-Palestinian animus and that the “private anti-Palestinian groups” coordinated with administration officials to persecute Khalil and other Palestinian rights advocates.
What chance does this have to get anywhere?
It will probably be won at some lower level court, then appealed by the government up to the Kangaroo Courts and there it will be struck down.
Apparently I now need to read up on the KKK act of 1871…
